एक लंबी हड्डी का अंत; शुरुआत में मुख्य हड्डी से उपास्थि की एक परत से अलग हो गए जो अंततः ossififies तो भागों को फ्यूज किया जाता है

epiphysis's Usage Examples:

The epiphysis, or pineal body, is quite as degenerate as in mammals, although still forming a long stalk as in reptiles.

The two bones were Ovis or Capra femur and were articulated, an unfused proximal epiphysis and the shaft from the same individual.

Slipped upper femoral epiphysis is a common cause of limping and leg pain in adolescents, and the symptoms should be taken seriously.

The bite had left a sub-circular depressed fracture about 6mm across on the dorsal surface of the shaft, just above the distal epiphysis.

These bones grow at their ends, in a region called the epiphysis.

arcuate artery supplies almost the entire epiphysis.

In young people X-rays also help to exclude a slipped femoral epiphysis.

Specimens in the museum at Tervueren near Brussels show that in fully adult males the horns are subtriangular and inclined somewhat backwards; each being capped with a small polished epiphysis, which projects through the skin investing the rest of the horn.

epiphysis's Meaning':

the end of a long bone; initially separated from the main bone by a layer of cartilage that eventually ossifies so the parts become fused

Synonyms:

os longum, long bone,

Antonyms:

exocrine,